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- Overly Sarcastic Productions Shakespeare Summarized Much Ado About Nothing AND Hamlet Reaction
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Shakespeare Summarized: Hamlet
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Shakespeare Summarized: Much Ado About Nothing
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Brian Blessed is a beloved actor in the UK because he is our Nicholas Cage. He over acts, is insane in interviews, makes bizarre choices but is usually great to watch. He also has a booming voice and has no availity to lower his volume when speaking thus why you have to say his name as "BRIAN BLESSED!!!!"
Over here in the US, he is perhaps best remembered for playing King Voltan of the Hawkmen in Flash Gordon...which, depending upon what circles you run in, is either a Black Mark or a Ringing Endorsement of his skill as an actor.
The channel started with just Red. IIRC, she started it as a place to put the videos she was making for school, but quickly diverted to making summary videos for various works of literature. Then, when she was in college, she talked to Blue about posting some videos of his own and now, a bit over 10 years later, they have an established channel and fanbase. As well as a podcast that I recommend.
Yeah, it’s amazing. How a channel that originally started as a kind of a for school projects became its own entity and we’re all here to love it.
Bear in mind that talking about Shakespeare was how Red actually started OSP. She started exclusively drawing her reviews when she wanted to do the Iliad and the movie Troy turned out to be such a poor adaptation; and in all likelihood continued in order to avoid copyright strikes.
BRIAN BLESSED is a world famous opera star who has done pretty much everything in his life including giving up an attempt at climbing Mt Everest because he had to help someone go back down the mountain to SAVE THEIR LIFE. (my favorite two plays are Macbeth and Titus Andronicus )
Fun fact: The Much Ado About Nothing Moive is from 1993. The first John Wick is from 2014. Which is somehow a decade ago.
And Keanu does not seem to have aged in much in between these movies. Somehow.
Action Jesus, remember?
the vampire seductresses from Dracula got more of him than we saw maybe ;P
And about the film: Branagh shot the unabridged version (aka Shakespeare's original folio version), which does indeed run for 3+ hours. Most stage productions of Hamlet cut a few scenes to save time and production costs.
I find the fact that he had to act alongside Derek Jacobi (arguably one of the best shakespearean actors since Olivier) shows either how confident or how over the top he is.
Exactly. Fortinbras is almost always cut because his bits add next to nothing.
It was common to marry the brother or sister of the dead spouse when you had young kids because they would already have a relationship with the aunt or uncle so it’d be less of a shock than bringing a strange new step mom/dad into the family. Hamlet however is an adult, so his mom has no excuse.
Much Ado About Nothing is Red’s first video, it was literally a homework assignment.
They have a detailed diatribe discussing the first decade of OSP. I highly recommend it.
Brian Blessed is a star. He have been in a lot of good stuff, including but not limited to:
Rome: Total War.
Kingdom Hearts.
Tarzan
A lot of Shakespare movies.
Black Adder
A Christmas Carol (1977)
Flash Gordon
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
YAY! I've been waiting for you to do her Shakespeare series!
The David Tennent picture was from an adaptation of Hamlet in a modernized setting, like 1950's. What he's holding in that picture is a knife. I actually watched it with my sister, and it's the only Shakespeare play I ever enjoyed, but that might have just been because of David Tennent.
It's really uncanny hearing Red's voice from 11 years ago. It's deepened a lot since then. Then again, she was, like...literally a high school student at the time, so it makes sense.
Weren't some of her earliest videos literally made as homework assignments?
@@leeshajoiMuch Ado About Nothing was homework.
37:20 Red started the channel, and Blue joined in later. They've got a Detail Diatribe video for the channel's 10 year anniversary, "TEN YEARS of OSP", that lays out the paths and developments of the channel (it's about an hour and 40 minutes long, so not reactable, but still a good watch if you're interested in the channel's history)
Kenneth Branagh was in a whole load of Shakespeare movies, mostly in the 1990s. He played Benedick and Hamlet in these two, and he was also in Henry V, Othello, and As You Like It.
I'm about to see a lot of him in the next few vids. 😮
Yes, that was Robin Williams
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2:04 this old guy is Richard briers was in a tv show called the good life among others,also Brian blessed was the"grodon's alive" guy from the film
Back to the beginning I see.
Brian Blessed is in practically everything including voice acting. Seriously, look up his tv tropes page.
Yup. Appreciating the classics. 😁
May I say you absolutely need to get to know the work of Brian Blessed: I first watched him as the Emperor Augustus in the 1970s mini-series, "I, Claudius". He was magnificent among a constellation of magnificence ... In fact, you should do yourself the pleasure of watching the entire series.
You really go for old stuff.
Yup. 😁
@@Airier From this period in Red's work, I really like the Don Quixote video.
You may know Brian Blessed from Phantom Menace. He plays Boss Mass.
I remember a few years ago I went to see a version of the Hamlet play that had a female actress playing Hamlet and a male actor playing Ophelia; it was also fully bilingual in English and ASL and the story was told from the perspective of Horatio who was played by a deaf actress and thus communicated solely through ASL, so pretty neat :)
By the way poison in the ear was a real thing. You can apply it when the person is asleep and it goes straight to the brain.
actually, I think it's more a case of it goes in yer ear and trickles down the back of the throat.
@DDlambchop43 Also a possibility. The detail is though that it was a thing.
The ear poison thing is *sorta* plausible. Basically the ear cavity connects to the throat, so it could theoretically get to the stomach that way. I’m not saying it’s a very good way to administer poison, but I could see something like that really working
Both videos used the Kenneth Branagh versions of the plays. Branagh is a well-known actor/director/producer who likes casting himself as the lead in the serious movies he makes. He did a ton of Shakespeare movies and has since moved on to Agatha Christie after completing the Bard’s greatest hits. There’s a reason why casting Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart in the Harry Potter films was viewed as almost too on the nose.
Much Ado About Nothing came out about 2 years after Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. So, this movie was made before Keanu even did the Matrix movies. At the time Red was making this video, most critics and movie buffs kinda meme'd about Keanu because of the Matrix movies; however, in an ironic twist... this video came out 2 years before the first John Wick movie.
Its very clear that Shakespeare never visited Denmark what so ever XD
Fun fact about fencing: what you said about the stabbing not being deadly but likely leading to infection is true; that’s why most fencing duels were fought while shirtless so no cloth fibers would get in the wound, decreasing the likely hood of infection.
Ah, Brian Blessed! The booming voice of stage and screen! A veteran of British classical theater, that man grew up on a solid diet of scenery! I best remember him from the Flash Gordon movie where he played Prince Vultan of the Hawkmen.
The cast of Hamlet(1996) is amazing.
18:55 There was this Vietnamese skincare clinic that accidentally made a logo that's identical to that of the Umbrella Corporation.
YES!!!! Finally, thank you, I've already seen all of these, but none of my friends or family like them, and rewatching them alone isn't as fun as watching them the first time, or rewatching in company, no matter what naysayers proclaim, reaction channels can and do fill a niche in the anti-loneliness fight.
Agreed
ok lots to unpack here. Glad you're getting into Red's early stuff. She actually started the channel cause she did a video review of a Shakespeare play for a school project.
First. Yes, everybody says it like BRIAN BLESSED. it's even on tv tropes like that.
Second; there were a ton of Shakespeare adaptations in the 90s, some were modernized, some classic. It'was a whole thing back then.
Third; Kenneth Branaugh did a few of these, he was allowed to direct so naturally they were...very detailed.
Lastly: the string of Shakespeare stuff tended to be star studded. In hamlet, you noticed Robin Williams, there was also Billy Crystal and Jack Lemmon. Don't ask me why, maybe a prestige thing.
I can't wait til you get to Red's take on Macbeth. It's something else.
Im getting the feeling that Red might be a Fan of Brian Blesset.🤔
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Damn i kinda forgot there was a time when people hated keanu and it was kosher to mock him
My knowledge of Shakespeare come from a BBC 2 show called Shakespeare the animated tales ,if you interest the videoss are up on UA-cam was only 12 episode at run time of half-hour clearly no saying watch them is one go
the thing about Shakespeare being better to read in down-to-Earth English, wasn't his writing *at the time* considered to be low-brow and down-to-Earth?
Fortinbras often gets cut from most adaptations and even when people perform the play. He gets mentioned at the beginning and shows up at the very end. Other than that, he really doesn’t matter.
Was going to make a religious joke, but yibbum says "without children."
For this video, she used the scenes from the Hamlet TNT TV movie.
@Airier the next episode of fate abridged is dropping today at 7 pm
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Well now. Gonna be busy tonight.
calling Sharknado a B-Movie is rather generous in my opinion
Really want to see your reaction to her Taming of the Shrew video!!
I know Brian Blessed from Blackadder, but also The Sword of the Valiant, in witch he plays the green knight. He's a legend of British comedy.
Kenneth Branagh I'm less familiar with, but Hercule Poirot is Belgian, not French
The Detective (in this case) == Hercule Poirot (for some values of fussy Belgian mustache enthusiasts)
Ahhh yes because peasnts were so nice and wholesome surely : )
Keep in mind that this a play adapted to a movie of course normal humans would act diffrently. lol
We all know what video is tomorrow UBWA cants wait
Ben Crystal does some interesting videos on how Shakespeare plays would have been pronounced in his time. Sounds very interesting, like pirate talk. Also, that was indeed Robin Williams!
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You are mentioning often that you are a 12-year old (or as mature as one) and how we all are.
I have to agree, looks like Shakespeare saw it too.
TODAY'S THE DAY!!!
Wow Overly Sarcastic Productions was true to their name at somepoint
John Wick came out 2 years after the video btw so that might explain the Keeanu coments
A bro version of Shakespeare... I'm guessing you don't mean Tromeo and Juliet.
English Major who doesn’t know Poiro’s name, well Ihhve nevah. That being said: Belgian.
Dude on 20th (tomorrow at time of writing) Fate ubw episode 11 coming out
What about Navani? She married her Brother In Law?
You should react to OSPs College/Hell video
32:00 If you're doing 10 words every 5ish seconds, that's 2 words per second. So 300 words would be 150 seconds, or 2½ minutes.
Its don john the the bastard
taming of the shrew will probably make you cringe you will found out why with red's video on it.
You're oddly knowledgeable about swords.
Spent years fencing (although not years being good at it 😅).
@@Airier Sounds like my time learning Spanish.